Traveler



March 22,, 193.. BASSETTI 2,1WL544 TRAVELER Filed April 10, 1957 [NVENTOR BY W Patented Mar. 22, 1938 2,111,544

UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIcE TRAVELER William Wesley Bassett, Pawtucket, R. I., assignor to A. B. Carter, Incorporated, Gastonia, N. 0., a corporation of North Carolina Application April 10, 1937, Serial No. 136,100

4 Claims. (Cl. 118-61) This invention relates to ring travelers for The yarn Y approaches the traveler from an spinning machines. angle and engages one of the surfaces 20 or 25 Ring travelers when in operation on a spinning substantially on a tangent and passes around this machine travel at a very fast rate of speed around surface and leaves the surface also substantially 5 the ring and when so traveling the traveler floats on a tangent. Therefore there is a minimum or has practically no contact with the ring. amount of frictional engagement between the Various traveler cross-sections have been proyarn and the traveler. Furthermore due to the posed and used, such for instance as round, flat shape of the cross-section illustrated in Fig. 2 and half-oval, that is oval or curved on one side it will be evident that the air resistance to the and fiat on the other. movement of the traveler around the ring will in This invention has for its salient object to be reduced to a minimum. Moreover since the provide a traveler so designed as to cross-section traveler is symmetrical with reference to its maas to reduce the friction of the yarn on the travjor axis or to the major axis of the cross-seceler to a minimum. tion thereof, a perfectly balanced construction Another object of the invention is to provide is provided. 15 a. traveler having a cross-section so designed as If desired, the edges of the traveler or ends of to reduce to a minimum the air resistance on the the oval surfaces shown at 23 and 24 may be traveler. slightly rounded instead of sharp.

Another object of the invention is to provide Although one specific embodiment of the ina traveler so designed as to cross-section as to vention has been particularly shown and de- 20 equalize the weight, thereby producing a more scribed, it will be evident that modifications and perfect balance, changes in the construction may be made with- Further objects of the invention will appear out departing from the spirit and scope of the from the following specification taken in connecinvention, as expressed in the following claims.

25 tion with the drawing which forms a part of this Having thus described my invention, what I application and in which claim is:

Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of a traveler ring 1. A ring traveler having means for embrachaving mounted thereon one form of traveler ing a traveler ring, said traveler cross section constructed in accordance with the invention, and having on opposite sides of the major axis there- 31 Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse sectional eleof convex, symmetrical surfaces. vation of the traveler. 2. A ring traveler having means for embracing In the embodiment of the invention illustrated a traveler ring, said traveler cross section havin the drawing there is shown a traveler Ill ing oppositely facing convex, symmetrical surwhich may be of any desired form or shape and faces, said convex surfaces meeting at each len- 35 in the form illustrated has hooks H and [2 formed gitudinal edge of the traveler in a line. on the ends thereof for embracing the spinning 3. A ring traveler having means for embracing ring 13. The yarn Y is shown as leading downa traveler ring, said traveler cross section having wardly to the ring Ill, passing under the angular oppositely facing convex, symmetrical surfaces, portion l5 of the ring and being led to the bobbin said convex surfaces meeting at the edges of the or spool S. traveler. 4D

The particular novel feature of the traveler 4. A ring traveler having means for embracing consists in the cross-section which is shown in a traveler ring, said traveler having a cross secthe enlarged view in Fig. 2. From this figure it tion comprising oppositely facing symmetrical, will be noted that the surfaces 25) and 21 of the convex surfaces, said surfaces converging from traveler are curved and meet at the edges 23 the center to the edges of the traveler. 45

and 24 in lines which lie in the plane of the major axis of the cross-section. WILLIAM WESLEY BASSETT- 

